Fuel economy is an important factor for many new car purchases. While gas may be relatively cheap in the U.S. for now, there’s no telling what the future holds with our precious petrol.
But, there are some exceptions when looking at fuel economy. Take the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V: it has the 2016 Corvette Z06’s LT4 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine, and sits as General Motors’ fastest production car. Consumers ready to drive home with one of these sports sedans aren’t going to be paying much attention to the MPG in the window sticker. But, it’s a matter of the industry.
While we were busy enjoying the 2016 CTS-V, Cadillac let it slide the car will be rated at 14 mpg city, and 21 mpg highway. The combined average sits at 17 mpg. Considering the performance provided, those aren’t terrible ratings.
But, we expect that is with a very light foot. Bury the accelerator, and we’re sure you’ll watch those numbers drop steadily.
Stay tuned as we bring you more information, and driving impressions, on the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V in the very near future.
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“there’s no telling what the future holds with our precious petrol”
You nailed it with the word ‘precious’. It’s so precious we’re ‘fracking’ for it, causing earthquakes in states that have never had such activity prior to fracking.
Cadillac is a business. It doesn’t care about the long term implications of global warming. Cadillac doesn’t care about gas guzzling and it’s implications of world peace in the Middle East. Cadillac only cares about competing in a lucrative area of the car industry… as to not be excluded.
I appreciate that GM is working on the Bolt. It is the first type of electric car that’s realistic. Many miles, short charging time. If a solar/wind infrastructure is ever built in America, Bolt tech could (and better) start showing up in MANY GM cars.
If we are to care about our children more than our driveways.
P.S. We need oil for plastics. Plastic is awesome. Petrol is dinosaur.
You act like Cadillac is the enemy. Sorry bud, any company that uses raw materials does environmental damage. You wanna talk about fracking causing earthquakes? Let’s talk about the acid rain and poisoned water in Canada due to mining the materials to make the batteries for electric vehicles. No company is without sin. Even the cute little device you used to bitch your hearts desires on a motoring website has these rare metals that were mined for pennies a day right out of Africa and sent to China where it was assembled by children. So don’t act like one company is superior to the other, nothing in this world is setup unless somebody somewhere is making money.
“You act like Cadillac is the enemy.”
Sorry bud, but you’re responding like an over-protective fanboy. I never ‘acted like’ or said Cadillac is THE enemy. What’s going on is we’re in a Cadillac story. I plainly stated —
“Cadillac only cares about competing in a lucrative area of the car industry… as to not be excluded.”
See? That infers they’re not alone in this. What I’m doing is pushing back on the idea that a Cadillac is okay as a gas guzzler just because a Caddy is awesome. It’s NOT okay. Oil is precious and cars ARE killing us.
I don’t expect GMAuthority to change. But as a person concerned about the future of humanity it doesn’t seem beyond the pale to mention that lousy gas guzzling is…. wait for it… lousy gas guzzling. No matter how pretty the car… and it is pretty.
Never at all did I proclaim to be a Cadillac fanboy. As far as GM goes Cadillac is the least dependable of the Divisions and is borderline terrible. Like you, I’m very concerned about future environmental damage, but actually you did act like Cadillac was the enemy and completely failed to mention the fact that electric cars damage the environment too. Instead you chose to romp about oil in the middle east and how it destabilized the area. The US imports most of its oil from Canada, now is that destabilizing Canada? Last I checked it was a pretty safe place to visit. Its not a geographical problem, it’s a people problem.
“but actually you did act like Cadillac was the enemy”
AN enemy. As ONE gas guzzler. You don’t need that explained a third time, do you?
“failed to mention the fact that electric cars damage the environment too”
I’m not obliged to. The topic is this Cadillac’s gas mileage and my response was it’s a gas guzzler. Scott3 mentioned for it’s power this car isn’t a terrible guzzler, but compared to nearly all other cars it’s a planet killer. As sexy as it is.
Now if YOU’D like to make a point about electric cars, knock yourself out. Just don’t blame me for not reading your mind and mentioning a point I consider skewed.
That’s YOUR job.
yet you probably sit in your house with a/c on blast and all the lights on all night and day long. watch tv.. sit on internet.. almost everything you use was made or processed with fossil fuels
“yet you probably sit in your house with a/c on blast — all night and day long.”
Wrong. A/C on various afternoons in summer. Never at night because I can’t sleep. Rarely heat home in winter and never with oil. STRIKE ONE!
“yet you probably sit in your house with all the lights on all night and day long.”
Wrong again. In CA the light is so frickin’ bright one has to close windows to decrease light during the days. That’s a way WAY wrong STRIKE TWO!
“yet you probably sit in your house… watch tv.. sit on internet..”
Samsung LED Energy Star for under 3 hours a day. I don’t leave it on all day ‘for company’ like almost everyone you’re actually referring to. Yeah, I sit on the internet before an Energy Star LED iMac. Blow me. STeeeeRIKE THREE!!
If you were trying in your sad little way to reveal me to be hypocrite, let’s at least talk on a relevant topic. Cars.
I bought a Buick Encore. I could have gotten a car with better mileage but I don’t have much choice in this class of car. I’m hot for CUV/MPV cars.
Since I just sold a ten year old car with 47,000 miles on it, I’m not going to crucify me regarding oil OR not getting an UGLY Prius. If they ever make a Prius shaped like an Encore but not coyote ugly, I’ll head that way.
AS TO MY POINT I’d rather see an Encore with Bolt technologies.
OH. And minus points for skimming, Matt. I said —
“P.S. We need oil for plastics. Plastic is awesome. Petrol is dinosaur.”
Oh yeah. I told cable to screw itself years ago at this point. Put an Apple TV in its place —
“An Apple TV on the other hand consumes less than 2 watts when streaming HD video from Netflix. That means that you could theoretically run 16 Apple TVs with the same power that is needed to run a single cable DVR.”
Well Let me tell you what the web site can not say till Aug 3rd that will put these numbers into better context.
0-60 3.7 Sec
1/4 mile 11.6 sec
top speed 201.8 MPH
Lateral G force 1.00
Weight I hate to say is 4145 pounds.
To get performance numbers like that wit that much weight and still see 21 MPH on the highway is amazing and the price starts around $84.995
This is bigger numbers than BMW and AMG both. On track the car is amazing as it is on the road. Dynamically GM has really got this car dialed in.
Now it is up to Johan to fix the details that have been the nit picks of the critics. That to me should be much easier than what they already have accomplished as GM is more hands off now and letting Johan spend the money it need to fix these issues like dash panels and Cue.
As for oil we have plenty as most of out oil has come from Canada and right here in the states. Only the east coast gets its oil from else where. The lack of building refineries and pipe lines prevents some parts in taking part in the Canadian oil as it is a pain and expensive to deliver by rail. Also it is more dangerous. Warren Buffet makes a lot of money this way with his rail lines and his influence is felt in Washington.
We are not going to run out any time soon but our concerns are mostly the cost as it is a global traded commodity and that is why the supplies over seas are a concern to us. It helps control the value of the dollar bases on global supplies. Also the price of gas is controlled by it too.
If you are an automotive enthusiast the MPG increases are important as this is what will keep the cars we love alive. If there are no improvements we will be stuck in sucky little 3 cylinder cars like a Spark at some point. If you think not just look how we went from 85% V8 to 85% 4 cylinder.
Either way these are good numbers on the performance and this this is for real.
It does sound and look awesome, no question.
I just finished reading a couple reviews about the new CTS-V; boy, I must say! This car is beyond stellar! Perhaps I’m most shocked about C&D’s assessment on the upgraded CUE system: “After whining incessantly about Cadillac’s poorly executed CUE infotainment gear, we’re elated to report that major amends have been made. The main eight-inch infotainment touch screen is smarter and quicker-responding thanks to a new processor.” However, Autoguide didn’t seem to share the same sentiments. But hey! An improvement is an improvement!
But of course, the performance is also being said to surpass the German competition! Much to their dismay! Cadillac has a winner here, and it holds no excuses this time around! With little to no setbacks! I’m now convinced Cadillac is headed in the right direction!!!
Blah, Blah, Blah . Autoweek has written an article saying that the CTS-V is as fun to drive as a 4-door Corvette would be .I prefer to listen to the automotive press that get paid for testing hundreds of cars as a living . When there are so many foreign and domestic brands all after being the best its nice to see that Cadillac is finding its stride and building not just boulivard cruisers but luxury cars that are fun to drive . People buying these cars dont give a hoot about MPG’s . They are the only ones that actually open the hood of the car to see what kind of work was done . And in general the cars on the road today get better fuel economy than ever. Thus slowing down the depletion of the ozone layer . And kuddos to GM for winning awards for having the best green factories in the world .